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TALLAHASSEE – Americans for Prosperity, the free-market advocacy group financed by the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch, is going on the attack. The group sent mail ads Monday to the districts of Senate President Andy Gardiner, R-Orlando, and 24 other senators over their support for a plan to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. “The Florida Senate continues to move forward on a plan to give good people bad coverage,” the mailer states. It also encourages residents to call senator’s district offices. Click here to view the mailer. AFP sent the mailers to the districts of senators who voted for the Medicaid expansion...

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TALLAHASSEE – Americans for Prosperity, the free-market advocacy group financed by the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch, is going on the attack.
The group sent mail ads Monday to the districts of Senate President Andy Gardiner,...

A standoff continued this week between the Florida Senate and House over health-care policy that has left the two chambers more than $4 billion apart on their budget proposals.
Where was Gov. Rick Scott on the issue? MIA.
Instead, Scott was at the...

Time is running out for more than 470,000 children in Florida who rely on the Children's Health Insurance Program, also known as KidCare, to finance their health coverage. If Congress does not act to extend funding for the program before Oct. 1, working...

Why would House Republicans let their opposition to Obamacare stop them from doing what's best for Florida?
State senators took another big step toward expanding health coverage to 800,000 uninsured Floridians last week, unveiling a budget that builds in...

Now that a plan to expand health insurance coverage to at least 800,000 Floridians has won unanimous, bipartisan approval in a state Senate committee, it's past time for the House's Republican majority to stop stonewalling the initiative.
Only politics...

TALLAHASSEE — Prompted by Sen. President Andy Gardiner, senators on Tuesday gave their most vocal backing yet of an alternative plan to expand Medicaid while imposing work and co-pay requirements.But the proposalalready faces staunch opposition...

The expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act went nowhere the past two legislative sessions in Tallahassee.This year, Central Florida leaders are working behind the scenes to craft bipartisan support for expansion."There is no question...

TALLAHASSEE — In a move that creates a $5 billion divide with the House, the Senate released a budget proposal Thursday that banks on expanding health-care coverage for low-income Floridians and extending a critical funding program for hospitals.
The...

TALLAHASSEE -- Pointing to a need to provide affordable health care to low-income residents, Senate President Andy Gardiner, R-Orlando, sent a memo to senators touting a plan that would set up a new state marketplace for insurance coverage.
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A standoff between the state and federal governments over Medicaid funds for low-income and uninsured people has Orlando hospital leaders feeling like they are in limbo.
"We are sitting in the middle of the road while chicken is being played between...

This past Feb. 15, Florida quietly made history. By the close of this year's open enrollment, 1.6 million Floridians had selected plans or were automatically re-enrolled through the Health Insurance Marketplace, the largest number of any state using...

Today the future of the Affordable Care Act is on the line once again at the U.S. Supreme Court. So is health care for millions of Americans, including 1.6 million Floridians.
The plaintiffs in King v. Burwell, backed by groups that oppose Obamacare,...

Federal officials announced on Friday a special enrollment period for people who didn't sign up for health insurance in 2014 and were unaware that they would face a tax penalty until they started filling out their taxes this year.
The enrollment...

Florida still leads the nation with nearly 1.4 million people selecting a plan in healthcare.gov, according to the latest government data released on Wednesday.
Almost 168,000 people in Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford area have selected...

A cue from Honest Abe
The past couple of weeks I have been thinking about this quote on education from Abraham Lincoln: "Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as...

Many Florida newspapers, including the Orlando Sentinel, have jumped on the bandwagon to promote Medicaid expansion in the state. Pressure to encourage the state Legislature and the governor to join this parade comes largely from a coalition of...

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As deadline to sign up for health insurance in the federal marketplace approaches, local navigators are ramping up their efforts to enroll uninsured individuals.
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More than 150,000 Central Floridians have selected a health plan or have been automatically re-enrolled in the federal health insurance marketplace, according to an Enroll America analysis.
Estimates also show than more than 90 percent of enrollees...